GPU accelerated performance

Hi,
Further to the recent posts regarding GPUs,
Will only Adobe-certified GPUs work with Mercury Playback Engine, for accelerated performance?
Or is the certified list only a list of GPUs that are garanteed to work, but some other GPUs not listed may also work?
I'm considering a system with a NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 670MX - 3.0GB DDR5 (not listed)
Will this work to accelerate performance while editing with Premiere?
or should I spend some more cash (£100) to get one of the cerfief ones? (AMD® Radeon® HD 7970M - 2GB DDR5 /// NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 675MX - 4.0GB DDR5)
thanks.
ps:
My laptop system:
Intel® Core™i7 Quad Core Mobile Processor i7-3840QM (2.80GHz) 8MB
32GB SAMSUNG 1600MHz SODIMM DDR3 MEMORY (4 x 8GB) (maybe 16, if 32 is an overkill)
SSD boot drive

The 670 MX will do very nicely. No sense in overspending on the 675 and forget about AMD for the moment. It may be supported, but still has problems with the driver and performance seems to be less than nVidia cards.
If you go to PPBM5 Benchmark and select Computer Type/Laptops, you will see a wide range of video cards that did perfectly well with CS5, CS5.5 and CS6. With the new CC version there are even more choices.

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